How to Use stony in a Sentence

stony

adjective
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  • Clarke did her thing and the HBO exec stayed stony-faced.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 27 Oct. 2018
  • At first, the city used the stony ridge for woodlots and rain catchments.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • Her mother sits very still, straight back and stony face.
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But Trump's praise that night was met with a stony glare as the cameras panned to Gorsuch.
    — CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
  • She and her 12-year old son (me) sweated in the August sun putting posts in stony ground.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • The senators watched, with stony faces, as Mr. Schiff spoke.
    — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
  • His face remains stony as his eyes dart from one corner to the other.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2024
  • When Tai draws a card after Van and Lottie's prodding, her face shifts to a very grave and stony—and familiar!—expression.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
  • The almost monastic stillness is broken by the rush of waves rolling onto the stony beach.
    — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
  • From a distance, Scarabeo looks like a jumble of plain white cloth tents dropped by mistake in the middle of the stark, stony Agafay Desert.
    — Krisanne Fordham, CNN, 29 May 2017
  • Emerson, a stony, muck-brown figure enveloped in shadow, has the look of the undead.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The hike starts on a red dirt path along the banks of Kanarra Creek before veering into the stony creek bed.
    — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 1 Aug. 2019
  • A diver swims above a garden of stony corals on the Great Barrier Reef, which is more than 1,250 miles long.
    — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 27 June 2017
  • Yes to fresh lobster by the bay, yes to walks through the pines and yes to wading through the salty, stony shores along Acadia National Park.
    — Sally Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2017
  • Or, accept a ride to the stony restaurant and indulge your caving craving over a pile of Skunk Onion Rings.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 12 June 2017
  • It's now found on reefs in 18 countries and territories, in at least 20 stony coral species.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Such trees, gnarly and stout, can live for hundreds of years on the harsh, stony landscape of the higher elevations.
    — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • On one hand, the lab has chronicled the impacts of the lethal stony coral tissue loss disease in the Florida Reef Tract.
    — Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • New arrivals get smaller, stony plots, big enough to grow household greens, but not a surplus.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Maintaining those stony faces was the best acting those sales reps ever did.
    — Mike Royce, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Beneath them, at eye level, a pair of stony-gray wings stands to the left of a photo of similar wings, leathery pink.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Their beehive tents were scattered across a stony valley.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • As Koy cracked his joke, the camera panned to Swift, who showed a stony expression and took a determined sip from her champagne glass.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • One of the game’s stoniest wills had been ground into exhaustion, broken.
    — S.l. Price, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • My friends assure me that I am supposed to cry, as though anything less were an indication of a stony heart.
    — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Most meteorites are stony, called chondrites, and they can be bought online for as little as $15 per ounce (50 cents per gram).
    — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • At the Captains Trail junction, across from a scenic view of the lake, the route heads inland and is quickly absorbed into stony corridors.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • What about a picture of an old horse and two tired, barefoot boys laboring in a stony field, backlit by the late afternoon sun?
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • One moving work is a wall-size, single-channel video projection of a recumbent Black torso, seen from behind, the head obscured beneath a stony pile of gray rubble.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • There's an unexpected warmth in it, such childlike joy beneath his stony exterior.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 June 2023

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